From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 4 19:36:50 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F9916A41A for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 19:36:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from tensor.andric.com (cl-327.ede-01.nl.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:7b8:2ff:146::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E736313C494 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 19:36:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:78bf:47b6:a774:d884] (unknown [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:78bf:47b6:a774:d884]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.andric.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78D83E; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 20:36:48 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <472E1F4F.7030409@andric.com> Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:36:47 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.7pre (Windows/20071029) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> References: <200711021208.25913.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> <472D9B2A.5080900@FreeBSD.org> <200711041302.08877.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> <200711041423.54336.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> <472DDEA2.7080804@FreeBSD.org> <009a01c81efe$be1f54f0$c801000a@balgaa> <20071104194331.b4fe5f45.cyb.@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20071104194331.b4fe5f45.cyb.@gmx.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Balgansuren Batsukh Subject: Re: FreeBSD-6.2, 7.0-BETA1 boot on Lenovo X60 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:36:50 -0000 Andreas Rudisch wrote: > or try the boot floopies: > ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/floppies/ > ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/7.0-BETA2/floppies/ There's no floppy drive in the X series ThinkPads, so you'll end up using an USB floppy drive. This will probably lead to the same BTX loader problem as with USB CD-ROM drives. The same is probably applicable to booting from USB sticks, and I'm not even sure FreeBSD supports booting off those. AFAIK the only non-PXE alternative is using the UltraBase docking station, which has an optical drive bay connected via ATAPI. But it's rather expensive; here in .nl, it's about EUR 175 for the dock, and EUR 130 for the CD-RW/DVD drive (not even a DVD writer!!).